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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
$26.95 | 94 minutes
Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is director Werner Herzog's hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, in 16th-century Peru. When the travellers reach an impasse, a scouting party is assembled to search for any traces of the mythical empire&hellip…
Danzak - Download
$7.95 | 20 minutes
Nina is a 10 year old girlwhose life dramatically changes when her dying father and Scissor Dancer master asks her to fulfillhis last wish. Inspired by the short story of Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, “The Agony of Rasu Ñiti”…
Destiny Has No Favorites
$23.95 | 87 minutes
This amusing feature film from Peruvian director Alvaro Velarde offers a loopy plot in which a bored housewife finds her house turned into the set of a soap opera. Ana (Monica Steuer) is the woman in question; bored by life, she is thrown into despair when her husband goes out of town and rents the house out to a film crew. But Ana becomes&hellip…
Fitzcarraldo
$27.95 | 157 minutes
Director Werner Herzog returns to the exotic locales and obsessive themes of previous works in his Amazon masterpiece, FITZCARRALDO. Klaus Kinski gives a terrifying and determined portrayal of mad genius Fitzcarraldo, whose twin goals of making a fortune off the Amazon rubber trade and bringing an opera house to the jungle give the film&hellip…